Executive dysfunction and goal neglect

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Table of contents

Acknowledgments
Table of Contents
Preliminary Note
List of abbreviations (in bold: most often used abbreviations in this PhD)
Introduction
Childhood Traumatic Brain Injury
EF in children
Other cognitive functions relying on executive functions
Executive dysfunction and related cognitive dysfunctions in children with TBI
Executive dysfunction and goal neglect
Rehabilitation of executive dysfunction in children
PhD overview
PART 1: Characterisation and Assessment of Executive Functions and two related functions: Prospective Memory and Self-awareness
Chapter 1: Executive functions following severe childhood traumatic brain injury – the TGE prospective longitudinal study: age at injury vulnerability periods
Introduction
Methods
Results
Discussion
Chapter 2: Ecological Prospective Memory assessment in children with acquired brain injury using the Children’s Cooking Task
Introduction
Methods
Results and Discussion
Chapter 3: Prospective Memory seven years after severe childhood traumatic brain injury – the TGE 2 prospective longitudinal study
Introduction
Methods
Results
Discussion
Chapter 4: Self-awareness assessment during cognitive rehabilitation in children with acquired brain injury: a feasibility study and proposed model of child anosognosia
Introduction
Methods
Results
Discussion
PART 2: Intervention
Intervention theory
Chapter 5: Rehabilitation of Executive Functions in Children EF in children
Developmental Issues in supporting EF for children
Current practices in EF interventions for children
Promising approaches
Problem-Solving Interventions in children with ABI
Examples of effective interventions for dysexecutive children in developmental
pathology
Interventions that have proven to be effective for children’s EF development outside
brain clinical conditions
Challenges, clinical perspectives and future research
Conclusion
Chapter 6: Goal Management Training for rehabilitation of executive functions: a systematic review of effectivness in patients with acquired brain injury
Introduction
Methods
Results
Discussion
Experimental data
Chapter 7: Context-sensitive Goal Management Training for everyday executive dysfunction in children after severe TBI
Introduction
Methods
Results
Discussion
Chapter 8: Metacognitive strategy use in children with severe TBI
Introduction
Methods
Results
Discussion
Chapter 9: General discussion
Summaryof findings
Strength and Challenges of the PhD
Limitations of the PhD
Outcome measures
Factors mediating effectiveness that could apply to new interventions
Final conclusions
References